What a Strange Day

Today (November 8th) was a very strange day. For starters, I woke up before Jared which doesn't happen. I actually got up and did stuff instead of being lazy. I worked for 4 hours and got myself ready for the day.
Meanwhile... Jared went to school where in his first class today (Friday's are different than other days) he spent the hour picking up trash around the high school. 2nd class he was running around holding music trying to help his 1 student learn how to better feel rhythm. 3rd hour was prep - nothing special. 4th hour he found an oboe and learned how to play it... sort of. 5th hour half of his students weren't even there (really only 2 students were absent but in a class of 4 that is half). When he left one of his legs fell asleep while he was walking to his truck, I'd call it strange.
After Jared got home we went to Royals (our local grocery store) and picked up groceries where our cashier caught me off guard by asking about the musical. Maybe it isn't that strange that someone in our little community would remember that we were the musical people, but still I have only seen her like once. Once home we ate lunch and headed off to Manti because it was Stake Temple Day.
I drove there, and Jared made corny jokes and kept talking about what I can only describe as a man crush. (Apparently earlier this week there was a speaker at the school's bullying assembly named... Josh?). Anyway Jared sounded similar to how his students talk, which in all honesty was strange.
We attended our session at the Manti Temple (by the way it is a beautiful temple but I got lost a few times and that is strange). Also there was a girl from our days at College Way Apartments (where we both lived when we met) that we saw at the temple who we couldn't remember her name (she and her husband live in Ephraim I guess), and she remembered my name but not Jared's (she thought his name was Curtis - who if you know my history you will find that strange as well).
We then went into Ephraim to Little Caesar's to get a pizza, but had to wait 10 minutes to for it to be ready. So since there was a Walmart down the street (the closest Walmart to wear we live is an hour away), we decided that we'd run into Walmart to get a few things we needed. But... strange thing is that when we looked at wax warmer stuff Jared picked out the newest smell (see it's strange because Jared can't smell ANYTHING). After picking up our pizza (which was absolutely fantastic) we went to Maverik to get gas and drinks, but Jared forgot to get napkins so we could eat pizza. We were driving along when we got to Gunnison.... and... well we didn't realize the speed limit had changed by quite a bit. We were cruising down Main Street Gunnison at 47 mph when we realized we didn't know what the speed limit was. Just as we were talking about how we didn't know what the speed limit was... lights started flashing behind us... yep that's right... a patrol man. But it gets worse... our registration on our car expired on 10/31/13 (but didn't have the expired registration even in the car), the newest insurance card was still sitting on the kitchen table, the address on Jared's license was not current. So... he had to ticket us because we had 4 things wrong.
We continued on our way home and then all of the sudden... on the side of the road there was this huge Elk. There it was just standing on the side of the road just looking at us as we drove by. It was a beautiful animal but it took us very much by surprise, and definitely not something you see everyday. I mean you see deer off the side of the road, but you don't see an elk.
It was a very strange day full of strange conversations and strange things. And I am sure there were more strange things about today, but it is like 1:30 am.

Home Part 1

Well it may be a while before I actually get pictures of our entire house to put on here, but I figured I could start with what I do have. Life has just been super busy and I haven't been able to get the house totally put together how I want. Here are pictures of our front room and dinning room.

I am glad I got the front room done first because it was shortly thereafter changed with our Halloween decorations (pictures to come soon). So far I have loved being able to decorate our home and make it feel like it is our place. Look for Home Part 2 to come soon (hopefully).